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SERGEANT JESSE FOWLER had come to live
at 913 Cedar Street in Camden NJ sometime after 1930. He attended Camden
County Vocational School in Pennsauken NJ. By the 1940s he was living at
211 Landis Avenue in Oaklyn NJ. Jesse
Fowler enlisted in the United States Army. He qualified for flight duty,
and trained as a gunner and flight engineer. He graduated gunnery school
at Harlingen TX, was promoted to sergeant, and won his wings, in
September of 1943. He received further training at Wendover Field UT,
and was home for a brief furlough in late January, 1944, after which he
returned to Wendover Field. He had posted a letter home only two
days before when the bomber he was flying in was shot down over France
on October 5, 1944, at the age of 21. He was survived by his aunt, Mrs. Albert Laurie of
Camden NJ. His death was reported in the October 28, 1944 edition of the Camden
Courier-Post.
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